BB’s Progressive Concept 2LP “Scenes From The Flood” now available In limited BLUE SWIRL VINYL
New EP “Calm Before The Storm” now available digitally at Bandcamp.
BB Tour Schedule: The Aristocrats’ DUCK World Tour continues with a massive tour of Europe in Spring of 2026. Currently he is home writing his fourth solo album. For bookings and remote recording sessions, you can reach Bryan using the CONTACT page.
BB’s new EP “Calm Before The Storm” takes a new sonic look at three songs from the “Thanks In Advance” album –
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BB’s double progressive concept album “Scenes From The Flood” featuring Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Guthrie Govan. Mike Keneally, Ray Hearne (Haken), Gene Hoglan (Dethklok) and more – now available in BLUE VINYL in the Shop!
LEST I FORGET: I now realize that my year in review post from last week had one glaring omission: WesFest 20 in Boston back in July! Perhaps it’s fitting that it gets its own re-post. 20 years after helping to start this annual event, I was on hand to help award the Wes Wehmiller Scholarship Award to Stella Chapple, and we celebrated with a BB/Victor Wooten/Steve Bailey jam that was tons of fun. Long live WesFest and long live Wes Wehmiller.![]()
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Happy holidays, everyone!
2025 IN REVIEW: This year started off with the release of the Joe Satriani/Steve Vai/Eric Johnson “G3 Reunion Live” Album, the live capture of two Los Angeles shows at the end of this exclusive limited-run tour. Being on a Joe live album was a great way to cap off a 12-consecutive-year run in his live band. But being the bassist for this legendary reunion jam set was even more of a circle completed. As the older heads following along here might remember, in 1996 I auditioned for Steve Vai’s band for the original G3 tour, the very first one, with this specific lineup (Satch/Vai/EJ). I was 25 and young and hungry but the gig went to a very deserving Philip Bynoe (who’s still with Vai today!). So it took about 30 years, and I guess I played with a lot of other guitarists in that time (!), but it was especially nice to be there for this once-only three-week reunion tour and resulting live album. “Spanish Castle Magic” is the cut where I feel like it all really came together. Thanks go to Eric, Steve, and especially Joe, for the incredible music and great vibes. (And thanks eternal to Mike Keneally, who as always was there to make the connections happen in the first place!)![]()
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Then it was off for a marathon run with The Aristocrats: Australia (first time since 2016!), then all over Asia (including India), and then straight to Miami for the Cruise to the Edge (first time for me!), and then straight on into a USA run. It was almost three months in total, and we reached so many fans in so many different corners of the world. It never stops being amazing to me that we have our own band, our own songs, and that Guthrie, Marco and yours truly have managed to to turn a one-off jam at the NAMM show in 2011 into the world touring act it is today. If you came to one of those shows on the ever-evolving DUCK World Tour: thank you so very much. ![]()
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I had some time at home and then The Aristocrats went back to South America (also first time since 2016) for three weeks of incredible crowds, some of the largest we’ve ever played. Finally, in October, Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins reunited for an east coast/midwest tour for the first time since 2017. ![]()
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Suffice it to say, many notes were played loudly on stages throughout the year.![]()
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But I also refocused on my solo material, because I could feel some new material brewing for the first time in quite a while. I got back into the solo artist swing of things by releasing “Calm Before The Storm: A ‘Thanks In Advance’ Remix EP”, which took another look at three of the key compositions from my 2008 release “Thanks In Advance”. Sonic guru Forrester Savell remixed “Greasy Wheel”, “Cave Dweller” and “Love Terror Adrenaline”, all songs that ended up having Aristocrats lineage (the first two were in our early live sets; the third actually had Marco on drums, an anomaly in my solo catalog). 100 limited CDs were pressed and snapped up - thank you for your support! The EP is up digitally on my Bandcamp page as well as your favorite streaming services. ![]()
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I also still have some signed/numbered BLUE VINYL copies of “Scenes From The Flood” left in the webstore (at bryan beller dot com). 18, to be exact. ![]()
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And finally, I started work on demos for my next solo album. More on that in a later post. ![]()
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This picture is Death Valley from Dante's View, with the rare appearance of a lake in Badwater Basin from some hard rainfall days before. This is like a "choose your own adventure" metaphor generator, so I'll leave you to that and wish you a very happy holiday season, along with eternal thanks for following me on ye olde social media. ![]()
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As Ringo always says: Peace and love, people.
FIRST GIG OF 2026: It’s the return of Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins at The Baked Potato, on the Tuesday and Wednesday right before the NAMM show (Jan 20-21). If you’re local, or in town from out of town for NAMM a little early, come on down! (I also have to say that Mike’s hand drawn poster graphics of this band are getting better and better.)
ART ROCK: Here's a unique holiday gift idea from my friend and musical compatriot Griff Peters, who has compiled a coffee-table-worthy book of stunning photos of balanced rock formations as a statement of nature art ethos. No AI here! Check the video - available at griff peters dot com.
Rock Artizen book announcement
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Griff Peters here welcoming you all to check out my new book: Rock Artizen - a nature art ethos.
FROM THE VAULT: I think it was 13 years ago that I recorded this song for the group i.AB. Strangely enough I didn't have it listed in my OCD-fueled discography (on my own website bryanbellerdotcom) and had forgotten about it. They just remastered it and I suddenly remembered how much I liked this song. Classic prog vibes with an interesting twist. And definitely recorded on my fallen soldier old red Mike Lull M5. ![]()
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from the album Counting (2025 Remaster)
